Inspiration is all around for UX designers, whether it comes from a nice website or, in this case, a grocery store. UX Booth contributor and interface developer Felicity Evans explores the UK grocery store Ocado’s UX design and illustrates what we can learn from it.
EffectiveUI chief executive officer Rebecca Flavin examines how the ongoing “platform wars” effects user experience. Even with all the options in the hands of we designers, it’s important to remember that users come first.
Paper prototyping is a key component of the user-centered design (UCD) process and is a popular method among designers. The characteristics of paper prototyping lends itself to the iterative approach that is so valuable in the UCD process
Usability testing, though incredibly useful, is not without its own hitches. Author and self-described “usability geek” Jacob Creech walks through the most common issues and how to avoid them.
Ready to get real about your website’s content? In this article, we’ll take a look at Content Strategy; that odd amalgamation of web savvy, Information Architecture and editorial process that adds up to something infinitely greater than the sum of its parts.
Usability and visual design are two areas that are heavily dependent on each other. They affect each other dramatically and each requires an understanding of how people will use and visualize the content. Pulling them apart, where possible, is a great way to understand how they impact the overall design and reduce the time and energy wasted in your creative process.
John Hyde has uncovered a variety of approaches while researching About Us pages. This post catalogs some of the most notable, eventually exploring why some of the biggest names decide to go “without about.”
Have you ever sat in a user testing session, watching a user really struggle with the task at hand only to have them tell you at the end everything was easy and straight forward? How do you encourage these participants to be negative? I’ve discovered a few techniques that might be able to help.
A good checkout process allows customers to quickly and easily make their purchases online without feeling overwhelmed or confused. In this post, Erin Jo Richey walks us through three common eCommerce usability blunders, and how we can fix them.
These usability guidelines may not be the first things to come to mind when preparing a site, but they are important none the less.
Information Architects often struggle to stay relevant to business clients and internal project teams due to their academic approach to achiev…
In this video I look at changing the experiences users/customers have in mass consumer environments (i.e. fast food restaurants) and the decis…
There are well-known proverbs that imply (or state outright) that beauty is superficial and limited in what it can accomplish.
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